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A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects
A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects by Stephen Charnock.
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1683
A DISCOURSE OF The Pardon of Sin. › Application 3: 3 Use Of Examination.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Sincerity in our walk. A Spirit without guile, is made the Character of a pardoned man in the Text: There may be failings in the life, yet no guile in the heart; such a man is a pardoned man: A heart that hath no mixtures, no pretences or excuses for sin, no private reserves from God: A heart, that as the needle in a Compass, stands right for the Interest & glory of God, & answers to the profession, as an Echo to the voice: A heart that would thrust out any sin that harboured there, would not have an Atom of any filth odious to the Eye of God lurk there. Where this sincerity is, a willingness and readiness to obey God, (which is the condition of the Covenant) the substance of the Covenant is kept, though some particular Articles of it may be broken. Grace, the pardoning grace of God, is with them that love Christ in sincerity, Eph. 6. ult. Grace be with all them that love Christ Jesus in sincerity. Not a man excluded that is sincere; though he hath not so sparkling a flame as another, yet if he be sincere, the Crown of pardoning grace, and that of consummating grace shall be set upon his head.
1. Sincerity in our walk. A Spirit without guile, is made the Character of a pardoned man in the Text: There may be failings in the life, yet no guile in the heart; such a man is a pardoned man: A heart that hath no mixtures, no pretences or excuses for sin, no private reserves from God: A heart, that as the needle in a Compass, stands right for the Interest & glory of God, & answers to the profession, as an Eccho to the voice: A heart that would thrust out any sin that harboured there, would not have an Atom of any filth odious to the Eye of God lurk there. Where this sincerity is, a willingness and readiness to obey God, (which is the condition of the Covenant) the substance of the Covenant is kept, though some particular Articles of it may be broken. Grace, the pardoning grace of God, is with them that love Christ in sincerity, Eph. 6. ult. Grace be with all them that love Christ Jesus in sincerity. Not a man excluded that is sincere; though he hath not so sparkling a flame as another, yet if he be sincere, the Crown of pardoning grace, and that of consummating grace shall be set upon his head.